97 Quotations with Convent.
- 1. John Barrymore: Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional ...
- 2. Charlotte Bronte: Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack t ...
- 3. John Kenneth Galbraith: The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upo ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being C ...
- 7. Abraham Lincoln: The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was di ...
- 8. Willie Pastrano: I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. ...
- 9. Idi Amin: I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonab ...
- 10. Dorothy Parker: I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the ...
- 11. Harold Laki: No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates ab ...
- 12. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
- 13. Gregory Macguire: As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefi ...
- 14. Aleister Crowley: The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards fro ...
- 15. Elwyn Brooks White: A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an ...
- 16. Aldous Huxley: A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contra ...
- 17. Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know ...
- 18. Graham Greene: A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, ...
- 19. Murray Kempton: A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of ...
- 20. Lucy Maud Montgomery: As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and orig ...
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